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James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion Translation)
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com
Grandpa @The Judds (With Lyrics)
The Elements
@TobyMac @Instrumental Track w/ Lyrics
What
a Beautiful Name @Hillsong Worship
Give Us Clean
Hands @Chris Tomlin
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
We are all fighting some sort elements
in our every day today. Be it we are
trying perfection, trying to make something or someone happen, or trying to get
back up after we have been knocked down and maybe even out.
Time waits for no one. We are all aware we have a date stamp in
this world, our date of birth. We will all have our date stamp out time of
death. We do not know when that will be. Only God knows that.
However, we do know it is our
choice to get back up and keep fighting forward even if; even when!
Each day we are allowed up we are
given a new opportunity and even though it may seem so much as yesterday trust
me we have the opportunity to see the new world. We have the choice to make our portion our
space our moments new.
Get back up! Say thank you for all those who promised
they would be forever and here you are alone.
Say thank you for the scars that gave you thicker skin to push forward.
If you are up and breathing God
has more for you and you are worth more than anything that may or may not have
been.
We all have dreams; we all have
desires. We have all been let down, knocked
down. We have all had those mountain
moments and then found ourselves down in the basin stuck. Feeling lost at times and more times very alone. Or perhaps we fill ourselves up with so
much movement and doing or even people.
Don’t get stuck, don’t lose yourselves. Deal with whatever it is that we all
must. We were created for so much more
than pain the cold and harsh elements in life pour out on us.
Seasons change and that warmth
that shines on your face in the spring matters. Be it who we surround ourselves with, or all
of what we do or do not do.
If you are still here. You matter and are made to shine bright no
matter what is tugging at the power cord that feeds your spirit to keep going.
Not everyone is going to agree
some will agree just to disagree later.
Many will just tell you and do what you want to see and hear until they
find their way someone else on that destination they had before you were in the
path.
Don’t hate, never let it under
your skin so badly that the hate poisons who you really are.
Not for yourself, not for
anyone. Be thankful for the truth that
shines through in all the lessons even in the elements that you were not
expecting to wash over and wash away any peace you may have had any given
moment in time.
You want eternal peace know that your
soul is waiting for the one truth, one love, one future who is Jesus
Christ. Son of man, Son of God!
Have you met him?
Do you know him, but the world has
gotten so everything that you do not know where He is right now?
He is with you! Sometimes we just have to force ourselves
to realign who, what and when we are doing anything, nothing, or everything in
life.
He is right there wanting you to
call upon Him for everything. Not just
when we are down and almost out. Or
taking our last breath.
When he gets’ us back up one more
day and so many others, so many beautiful and great souls we know, we love are
not given that blessing. Give thanks He
still believes we are worth the air in our lungs.
Even if, Even when!
Sometimes some of us think our
worth is so great we look down on others that we are too good. When any second even those with much become
the least of these.
Yes, in a world that has labels
and more elements than mother nature.
Never think you are where you started or what you do.
So many that came from nothing
have been blessed to have more than everything and bless and do great
things. While others that came in with
everything really have nothing at all; so, they get caught up in bad
activities, habits and even selfishness ending up with nothing.
People may be able to take your material
things, your money even degrade you to make you feel like you are worthless. But material things are replaceable its
all temporary. And if you allow anyone
to convince you of your worth for what they see in you. Then you just have not met Jesus and found
your true worth in Gods creation and the fact you and are and all humanity were
created in the image of God and are priceless.
No one or no thing can ever take
that away even if we allow any of it to dirty our thoughts and believe we are
anything less than what God says.
You can do what you do, say what
you say and be who you think you are to matter in the perception of the circle
you run at any given time.
Facts remain. Even the highest paid musical act or move
star is still just a person with the life they have allowed and created for who
they wanted to be known as. But it will
never change who God intended them to be.
I get it. Many who have now what they think is
everything. Makes them think they have a
right to be different and gain more from those who are not living the dream
they created. Sometimes they are still
really beautiful kind souls 24/7; other times they become mean and not nice
individuals.
Either way. The dream they wake up into every day is
their choice. It is not our place to
hate on them or try and force change.
Just like it is not our place to
force our beliefs, hurts, habits and hang-ups on anyone else.
I am AlwaysMe; whoever reads any
of the pieces of me over time makes the choice to do so. None of which are ever being forced to
believe and certainly not asked to pass judgement.
But we are all human and humanity
lacks allot of kindness and love as it was intended and written in a book published
over 2000 years before our time in the right here right now.
No where has it ever been easy in
life, no where has it ever been free.
In fact, those with nothing pay
the price of life, those with what they think is everything pay the price every
day they get back up and make that choice.
My mind maze dumping out, my
perspectives, my pieces of me that have been shattered, scattered, and tossed
in so many directions of the wind in the years I have been allowed to get back
up.
I wouldn’t change who I am today
for anything in the world. To love and
feel love and an inner peace that pulsates through your veins and sometimes
takes your breath away while on that mountain top. Or the push and exhilaration when you are
not staying down for the count even though you have no worldly reason why you
should get back up.
We are meant for relationships. Relationships are hard. Be it couples, siblings, peers, business,
personal.
It all takes work. Them good old days if they ever were, are no
more. It seems nothing is sacred if it
ever was. I can remember when I first
ever went singing Karaoke Grandpa by the Judds was just one of those songs that
made me think about life.
Still does
Everything always changing, no one
ever really staying together in balance.
Working together seeking kindness and beauty with whatever was in front
of us. Just knowing when the battle of
whatever was over together, they stand.
Funny cause back then I use to sing
Calling all Angels after a few shots and nope I got no voice like Train.
But do you ever just listen to the
words of songs and know how true life in this world of so much and so many that
is so distant and constantly spinning, yet so full of truth.
Music is the heartbeat to the soul
and life. For me anyway.
Like romance movies or books for some,
music breathes life and when I feel it, sometimes I was just able to sing it.
Though it has been years since I
got out and did shots or even really drank.
I just don’t go out. Course even
if I did 2020 would have stopped all that.
But I still sing, be it from the
tech booth or in melody and harmonies with our local praise teams of those far more
talented to lead the way and reveal who Jesus is for those seeking to find Him.
Until you meet him, until you
really understand your worth in and with the creator its so ridiculously hard
to swallow anything anyone tries to share about a God that our generation has
not seen.
Yet once you allow him in. Well, those hippies of the 60’s are the
Jesus Freaks of today. Those who know the sacrifices that have been
given from the day of the cross to every day in those countries that they are
made martyrs because of the deep love and peace and what they believe.
By the way, just because someone believes
and doe their best to live in obedience and loves God, loves Jesus. Well, it does not make them exempt from what
we know as being human.
They still do and get caught up in
what is considered sin just like any other soul that does not openly believe in
Jesus.
In fact, the battle for believers is
harder. They are called to walk in dark
places and shine no matter what. And the
truth is you do become with what you are surrounded if you stay there long
enough.
Bottom line, where is your heart, is it pure; do you
intentionally get up every day with a moral compass and do your best even if
you mess up. Or do you just do
whatever you want to do and not care until you are on trial and burning.
No matter what we think and do in
the end; we will all face judgement.
Prayerfully I hope we all meet you Jesus before that day we are called
to the crossroads of that judgement.
I pray that even if I am wrong the
hope, the love and seeds I am able to plant flourish for all those who I do not
even know are watching into the wildflowers of all that that is good, all that is
beautiful all that is your intention and will Father God!
Heal us with clean hands.
Heal us with pure hearts.
Heal us to be a light and a
balance or whatever our brothers and sisters need and just keep looking up with,
to and for you.
Healing all unseen and all right
in front of us where needed. Forgive each
other and not keep doing what feeds the elements that destroy who you intended
us to be Jesus. But shelters us in all
you and your abundant mercy, grace and peace can be.
Meditation Opportunities
(Biblegateway.com) Bible
Verse of the Day
43-47 “You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love
your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging
that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you,
not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the supple
moves of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your
God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm
and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and
nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do
that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal?
Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.
Paul Prays and Gives Thanks
3 Brothers and sisters, we should always thank God for
you. That is only right, because your faith is growing more and more. We also
thank God that the love you all have for one another is increasing.
(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
Psalm 27:8 NKJV
When You said, “Seek My Face,” my
heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
2 Corinthians 4:7-8
But we have this treasure in jars
of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed;
perplexed, but no tin despair.
Isiah 12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my
song; has become my salvation.
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